In the 1950s it was sold to a salvage business, Brandt Engineering Co., in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, who stripped it of metal and used it for storage.

By 1976 the car was given to Prairie Village, a museum near Madison, South Dakota, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

While Barney and Smith was able to build the earlier Baptist chapel car, the Evangel, at cost, it was now a public corporation and was struggling to stay solvent.

As a memorial to him, a stained glass window was created and mounted in the door leading to the living quarters section of the car.

In 1942, a decision was reached to move the aging chapel car to a Baptist camp at Swan Lake, South Dakota, where it sat for thirteen years before being sold for scrap.